PadLeft function in T-SQL

Question

I have the following table A:

id
----
1
2
12
123
1234

I need to left-pad the id values with zero\'s:

id
----
0         


        

Answer 1

I created a function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fnPadLeft](@int int, @Length tinyint)
RETURNS varchar(255) 
AS 
BEGIN
    DECLARE @strInt varchar(255)

    SET @strInt = CAST(@int as varchar(255))
    RETURN (REPLICATE('0', (@Length - LEN(@strInt))) + @strInt);
END;

Use: select dbo.fnPadLeft(123, 10)

Returns: 0000000123